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  • On the post: “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool To Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.

    Rocky ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2026 @ 11:57pm

    Democrats are against voter disenfranchisement/suppression and mandatory voter ID is the vehicle that enables that on a grand scale. If don't understand why that is I suggest you shut the fuck up and actually learn why that is and what needs to be done for mandatory voter ID to actually work.

  • On the post: DOJ’s Losing Streak Continues Because Federal Officers Just Can’t Stop Lying

    Rocky ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2026 @ 01:47pm

    Haven't you noticed, they sound exactly the same when they get what they want as when they don't get what they want - loud, stupid and obnoxious complaints about how woke leftists are to blame.

  • On the post: Trump Demands Firing Of Netflix Board Member For Suggesting U.S. Corporations Might Someday Be Held Accountable

    Rocky ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2026 @ 01:42pm

    Does it matter who was in "charge" when they had nothing to do with the dossier ending up at FBI? Perhaps read up on why the dossier was actually created and who did what before you claim X did Y. And one thing is certain, without that dossier (regardless of its veracity) no one would have looked closer at the cozy relationship that was between the Trump campaign and Russian assets which resulted in criminal proceedings against 30+ people for various crimes.

  • On the post: The DOJ ‘Forgot’ To Mention The Law Restricting Searches Of Journalists. The Judge Is Not Happy

    Rocky ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2026 @ 10:26am

    Aren’t judges supposed to know the law?
    One would hope so, but they are still human.
    If the warrant application is submitted and a law applies to it, isn’t the judge supposed to call it out as a problem then?
    Yes, but as we see this particular judge was unaware of this law even though it is a law I expect every judge should be aware that it actually exists.
    If it’s up to the prosecution and the defense to spoon feed sufficient knowledge of the law to the judge, then what is the role of the judge? Is he’s just there to assign points based on today’s submissions?
    It is up to the prosecution and the defense to reference applicable laws because aside from being lawyers they are also officers of the court which comes with responsibilities that takes precedence over any responsibility they have to their client. The judge is there to decide what laws are applicable and the merits of the case, among other things, and then make a ruling on the facts presented.

  • On the post: Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors

    Rocky ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2026 @ 03:37pm

    It's not a lie if he have actually convinced himself of it being true, and from that you can easily judge how weak his connection to factual reality is. This is a dude with a frat-boy mentality that are hiding from reality in a self-made echo chamber.

  • On the post: Administration Says DHS Can Demand Social Media Info From Legal Immigrants And US Citizens

    Rocky ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2026 @ 03:30pm

    I see you didn't address that even US citizens will have their social media trawled by the government. I also want you to specify what "harmful to the US" actually means without shredding the Constitution into confetti.

  • On the post: Yes, Section 230 Should Apply Equally To Algorithmic Recommendations

    Rocky ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2026 @ 12:45pm

    That you regularly come here repeating your idiocy is just you trying to convince yourself that you are right.

  • On the post: Trump Demands Firing Of Netflix Board Member For Suggesting U.S. Corporations Might Someday Be Held Accountable

    Rocky ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2026 @ 12:34pm

    The "fake papers" was commissioned by Republicans.

  • On the post: Yes, Section 230 Should Apply Equally To Algorithmic Recommendations

    Rocky ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2026 @ 08:44am

    Does section 230 protect this as well? I don’t think it should.
    Yes and no, depends on how they are doing it. Generally speaking, if a company chooses what ads to put in your feed they are the content provider. If on the other hand they use for example Google-ads were some algorithm deep in Google's datacenters decide what ad to place it isn't as straightforward anymore because the company then has no prior knowledge what the ad contains and isn't really the content provider for it.

  • On the post: Yes, Section 230 Should Apply Equally To Algorithmic Recommendations

    Rocky ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2026 @ 01:45pm

    I say, let people who want to tweak 230 and remove algorithmic feeds drink from the raw firehose.

  • On the post: Before We Blame AI For Suicide, We Should Admit How Little We Know About Suicide

    Rocky ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2026 @ 03:31pm

    Here's the thing you are missing, a drowning person will grab on to anything that is floating nearby, even if it happens to be a sea-mine that says "Danger - Explosives". ChatGPT specifically states you shouldn't use it for any kind of medical reason but someone in mental distress couldn't care less about a TOS and liability indemnification, they are just looking for any kind of connection or help that their family, friends or society in general failed to provide. You want to blame the tool and its creator when in reality it is a societal failure that lets someone go so far down into a mental dark hole that they think the only solution is suicide. Blaming tools is easy, helping people is difficult, changing society is impossible without actually putting in the effort. You would make a bigger impact and helping more people if you actually spent the same time volunteering at a suicide prevention organization as you do writing angry posts on the internet.

  • On the post: Vinay Prasad: The One Man Roadblocking An mRNA Flu Vaccine

    Rocky ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2026 @ 03:34am

    Now, if Benj Edwards at Ars had been in the trial group for the vaccine it's very possible his abysmal AI-generated article would never have seen the light of day. Another reason why vaccines are good, it seems they could even help with stopping lazy AI-slop.

  • On the post: SC State Senator Proposes Bill To Remove Religious Exemptions For Vaccines In Public School Children

    Rocky ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2026 @ 12:11pm

    There's something called serology which tests for antibodies and their IgM/IgG ratios plus the antibody avidity and those can tell how long ago someone was infected OR vaccinated with some accuracy. If someone has been vaccinated they always have a strong IgG response but a very weak IgM response, not so if they were infected and not vaccinated. There's more to it than that, but it generally holds true. And we also have had some doctors who falsely gave unvaccinated people vaccination cards, do you really think such parents who availed themselves to that type of doctor would care about any rules a school or childcare may have about vaccinations? They got that fake vaccination card for a reason. Do I need to remind you about the plague-bearers that extolled the virtue of "fuck you, I do as I wish and you can't stop me"? Lying about being vaccinated comes naturally do these fuckers.

  • On the post: Cowardly And Complicit CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician To Please Republicans

    Rocky ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2026 @ 10:27am

    These studies, are they in the room with you right now or do they just exists in your imagination?

  • On the post: SC State Senator Proposes Bill To Remove Religious Exemptions For Vaccines In Public School Children

    Rocky ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2026 @ 10:23am

    One way to fix the problem is that if someone isn't vaccinated and then get infected and spreads it they are then liable for any incurred costs or deaths due to that spread. Poof, there went all the religious exemptions

  • On the post: SC State Senator Proposes Bill To Remove Religious Exemptions For Vaccines In Public School Children

    Rocky ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2026 @ 10:18am

    It's obvious you didn't get the part that it's entirely voluntarily avoid getting vaccinated, but if you go with that choice you also don't get to send your kids to childcare or public schools. But I'm sure you would happy to fraternized with people who may have Dengue-fever or Foot-and-mouth disease or any other disease there's a vaccine for. Hey, if you are lucky you may even run into someone who has the Bubonic plague but vaccines are bad, right?

  • On the post: Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

    Rocky ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2026 @ 03:27pm

    What has gone out of style is actual parenting. Parents are off-loading their parenting on others, like social media or TV or whatever. Then they get all angry when their kids end up in trouble or do things they don't like, all because they abdicated their parental responsibility. Then, to top it off, they want politicians to fix the problem, abdicating even more of their parental responsibility. If you have kids, be a fucking parent. If you can't then you shouldn't have kids. It's that simple.

  • On the post: Hey Brett Kavanaugh, This Is On You:

    Rocky ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2026 @ 03:21pm

    He's allergic to facts and truth, he'll just make shit up and believe it's true. That how weak of a mind he has.

  • On the post: Sen. Blackburn Gets Shitty Because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Attended An Awards Show Where ICE Was Criticized

    Rocky ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2026 @ 12:41pm

    I find it very strange that you think every person attending the awards had exactly the same opinion even though only one person mentioned "stolen land". I also find it very strange that you then interpret that as in "you don't believe in borders". Do you even know how to write an argument or opinion that isn't based on misconceptions, conflations, made up attributions, non-facts and a simpleton's broken logic?

  • On the post: Bondi Spying On Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be A Major Scandal

    Rocky ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2026 @ 10:55am

    It's just a reference to me explaining to this ignorant fool who didn't bother to actually look up what was going on legally in regards to the Epstein files and how they have been winding their way through the courts since 2015. If you haven't noticed, this person only have "confident" hot takes based on ignorance and information from right wing echo chambers, ie they think everything is very simple which is why they say things like "why didn't X just release the files!". For example, this fool don't know that one of the reasons why the majority files wasn't released earlier was because there were ongoing litigation and the need to redact names of victims. And look what happened when the DOJ was finally forced to release a big stack of documents, information like the names of many victims was never redacted.

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